rudimentaries
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The first principles or elements of a subject.
noun
Example Sentences
- "At the Ford Day Care Center in East Los Angeles, preschoolers spell on word processors, not on blackboards, and in special storytelling classes they go beyond the rudimentaries of writing and reading to learn about their rich Mexican history right along with the U.S. Constitution."
- "Every evening a van arrives in one of the isolated hill-farming communities of Scotland, England or Wales, with 12 laptop computers. Farmers will learn the rudimentaries of financial planning and business management."
- "Not all of that energy made it to the stage on Monday, though the group’s grasp of rudimentaries was intact; all four members rapped and screamed largely over prerecorded tracks, though here they performed with a drummer and Phat J’s keyboard."